Jerry Thomas Storie (born March 23, 1950) is a politician in
Manitoba
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cabinet minister
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Howard Pawley
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from 1982 to 1988.
He was born in
Winnipeg
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, Manitoba, the son of Clifford Earl Storie and Iris Eloise Young, and was educated at
Brandon University
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and the
University of Manitoba
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Flin Flon
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Flin Flon
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. He entered the cabinet on August 20, 1982, having been appointed Minister of Housing, with responsibility for the
Landlord and Tenant Act
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Minister of Northern Affairs
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Manitoba Hydro
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and the Natural Resources Development Act. On November 23, 1987, he was also given responsibility for the Natural Gas Supply Act. Throughout his second term in office, he retained responsibility for Forestry.
The NDP government of
Howard Pawley
Howard Russell Pawley (November 21, 1934 – December 30, 2015) was a Canadian politician and professor who was the 18th premier of Manitoba from 1981 to 1988. Prior to his premiership, Pawley served in various ministerial positions after his t ...
was defeated in 1988, when disgruntled backbencher
Jim Walding
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voted against his government's budget. The party was reduced to only twelve seats (out of fifty-seven) in the election which followed, although Storie was re-elected in his riding without any serious difficulties. He was again re-elected in the 1990 provincial election, in which the NDP recovered to twenty seats. He retired from the legislature on July 20, 1994. He returned to the field of education as Area 4 Superintendent for the
Frontier School Division
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in
Cranberry Portage, Manitoba
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throughout the late 1990s.
In 2001, Storie negotiated on behalf of Manitoba's provincial government in a dispute with the Canadian federal government over hydro resources. He later became Superintendent of the Turtle Mountain school division in Manitoba. Storie was appointed the Dean of Education at Brandon University in 2005.